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    Gopi Parikh
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    This document discusses low-maintenance landscaping solutions for intermountain regions that face challenges like temperature extremes, short growing seasons, and drought. It recommends using windbreaks, xeriscaping with native plants, soil amendments, and conservative watering to create sustainable landscapes that require little water. Key strategies include using structures and plantings as windbreaks, selecting plants adapted to the local climate and conditions, improving soil water retention, and maintaining landscaping below the average regional water consumption level.

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    This document discusses low-maintenance landscaping solutions for intermountain regions that face challenges like temperature extremes, short growing seasons, and drought. It recommends using windbreaks, xeriscaping with native plants, soil amendments, and conservative watering to create sustainable landscapes that require little water. Key strategies include using structures and plantings as windbreaks, selecting plants adapted to the local climate and conditions, improving soil water retention, and maintaining landscaping below the average regional water consumption level.

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    Water-Saving Landscaping: Low-Maintenance Solutions For Intermountain Regions

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    Gopi Parikh
    This document discusses low-maintenance landscaping solutions for intermountain regions that face challenges like temperature extremes, short growing seasons, and drought. It recommends using windbreaks, xeriscaping with native plants, soil amendments, and conservative watering to create sustainable landscapes that require little water. Key strategies include using structures and plantings as windbreaks, selecting plants adapted to the local climate and conditions, improving soil water retention, and maintaining landscaping below the average regional water consumption level.

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    Water-Saving

    Landscaping
    Low-maintenance solutions
    for intermountain regions
    2 June 15, 2017

    Challenges
    Hot temperatures
    Cold temperatures
    Shorter growing season
    Drying winds
    Deluge/drought
    Poor soil

    Water-Saving Landscaping
    3 June 15, 2017

    Temperature Range

    Winter Spring Summer Fall


    Minimum 18 41 73 43
    Maximum 40 72 105 65

    Water-Saving Landscaping
    4 June 15, 2017

    Water Cycle Clouds

    Evaporation Condensation
    and and
    Transpiration Precipitation

    Runoff
    and
    Percolation

    Water-Saving Landscaping
    5 June 15, 2017

    Water Consumption
    200
    175
    150
    125
    100
    75 Average
    50 Conservative
    25
    0

    Water-Saving Landscaping
    6 June 15, 2017

    Solutions
    Windbreaks
    Xeriscaping
    Soil
    amendment
    Native plants

    Water-Saving Landscaping
    7 June 15, 2017

    Windbreaks
    Structures
    Fences
    Walls
    Plants
    Tree lines
    Hedges

    Water-Saving Landscaping
    8 June 15, 2017

    Xeriscaping
    Planting strategies that conserve water

    Water-Saving Landscaping
    9 June 15, 2017

    Soil Amendment
    Eastern Washington loses more than
    10 tons of soil per acre per year
    to rainfall runoff
    Source: Atlas of U.S. Environmental Issues, Mason & Mason, 1990

    Water-Saving Landscaping
    10 June 15, 2017

    Native Plants
    Tolerate temperature range
    Tolerate drought
    Prevent erosion
    Support natural ecosystem
    Attract pollinators
    Need little or no maintenance
    Sustainable

    Water-Saving Landscaping

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